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Friday Sep 13, 2013

The latest OTN ArchBeat Podcast program is a three-part series recorded during a question and answer session at the OTN Architect Day event held at Oracle Headquarters in Redwood Shores California on July 9, 2013. Earlier in the day the audience attended three presentations given by Oracle Cloud Computing experts Dr. James Baty, Anbu Krishnaswamy, and Markus Michalewicz. After those presentations the Q & A session gave the audience a chance to pick the brains of those experts.

In order to provide some context to the Q&A, I suggest you take a moment to review the slide presentations from the event, listed below:

As you'll hear, the first couple of questions refer to Markus’s presentation, which covered the DBaaS implementation at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. When Markus mentions "CBA," he's talking about Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

ArchBeat One Question Quiz 3#: Hardware History
Your desktop, laptop, tablet, or mobile device might be quite a bit different had it not been for the successful test of a key electronic component that happened on this day in 1958. Can you name that component? Bonus points for naming the creators of that component. Click the link to submit your answer.

Kscope13 Top Speaker Award | Tim Tow
Congratulations to Oracle ACE Director and business intelligence specialist Tim Tow on being named one of the Top 5 Speakers at Kscope13 for his presentation, " Introducing the Outline Extractor NG (Next Generation)."

New (HotSpot) JDK adds JRMC and Flight Recorder | Mark Nelson
Fusion Middleware solution architect Mark Nelson suggests you read the new press release on JDK 7u40, particularly for details on JRockit Mission Control and Flight Recorder, new features that provide "a lot more tools for recording and analyzing performance information for the JDK both online and after the fact."